Saraswati Colloquium - Guest Lecture

Christopher Pinney (Department of Anthropology, University College London)
Lessons from Hell: Picturing Punishment in India
Discussant: Abhijit Bhattacharya, CSSS (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) Calcutta
At Aarhus University, History and Area Studies Department)
3rd of May, 2-4 PM, building 1410, room 136 (Historisk Mødelokale)

 "Karni Bharni" images embody the importation of a Jain soteriology into main-
stream Hinduism in the late nineteenth century. They depict punishments in
hell for moral transgressions and eventually transmute, in the mid-twentieth century, into a parallel genre known as "Ideal Body" which visualise codes of citizenship. The lecture explored the powerful "underneath" of this world of punishment and its role as a visual mode of governmentality. 

Also presenting:

by Cameron David Warner (Post-doctoral Fellow in Buddhism and Modernity,
Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University)
Purifying the Realm: Buddhist Posters and Votive Cards from Tibet
Discussant: Abhijit Bhattacharya, CSSS (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) Calcutta

 

Download the event posters here or here

For questions regarding the lecture, please contact CISCA@hum.au.dk

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